Police didn’t confiscate his gun when a relative asked them to. Three weeks later, he shot someone else and then himself
The law requires that there be an imminent threat of danger, which limits what steps police can take when they are told that someone who owns a firearm has previously talked about harming themselves.
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Employees purchase iconic Maine T-shirt company
Nearly two years ago, Liberty Graphics employees began to talk to owner Tom Opper about the potential of buying the company through a worker cooperative.
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The prevailing narrative about rural America is that it’s a place of quiet desperation. But Gigi Georges thinks that narrative isn’t particularly fair.
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The pandemic forced me to face my anxiety — again
With my anxiety worsening as the pandemic continued , I realized I no longer knew how to live with it like I once did.
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